Load Balancing Digest

I could have gone a couple of different ways with the title, including “You alright! I learned it from watching you!” and “I’m not the one with a problem, you are”, but instead I went for the late great Robert Palmer.
But the point of this post isn’t cultural references, but rather the addictive nature of [...]

Back in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of the dinosaurs, and switch-based (and thus ASIC-based) load balancers were the future. The reason was performance. I’d had a few machines melt [...]

If you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90’s, and the warning was “someday man, someday” from a guy who probably thought we faked the moon landing. Actually, that’s not exactly true, but [...]

I received an email from a previously unmentioned-by-me vendor named Exceliance.  Based outside of Paris, France, they provide an HA Proxy/LVS-based appliance, and boast the HA Proxy’s author as it’s founder.  Worth a look, especially if you’re in Europe.

There was a post today on the lb-l mailing list asking about alternatives to Cisco’s CSS. This is part of a trend I’ve noticed lately, where people who have an existing Cisco CSS installation are looking to replace that gear with new gear.
Cisco CSS users specifically have an interesting choice when it comes to [...]

Sorry for the reference to lol cats, but unfortunately I am incapable of helping myself.
F5 released their new blade-chassis box, the VIPRION, a few weeks ago. The VIPRION boasts 36 GBits of Layer 7 traffic and 200,000 SSL TPS. Lori Mac Vittie does an un-boxing of it on F5’s devcentral.

Radware recently announced a new SIP offering, The SIP Director ADC (Application Delivery Controller).  See full press release here.

Speaking of Windows executable application delivery (WEAD?), KEMP released a new version of their LoadMaster code geared towards users of Windows Terminal Services. Brian Madden put up a good article on it at brianmadden.com. There’s an eWeek story covering this as well.
The gist of it is that the LoadMaster becomes Layer 7-aware of [...]

With more frequency, I’m being approached by vendors with news and announcements, so starting now I will be posting press releases/announcements that vendors forward to me and would like to see up
If you’re a vendor, and have a release or product announcement you’d like to see up on this site, just shoot me an email [...]

I got the chance to talk to Brian MaddenBeruhmte casino. today, who runs the Citrix uber-site brianmadden.com, which is a great resource for all things Citrix/Virtualization/Application Delivery.  We were talking about application delivery, when it hit me that we were talking about two separate concepts.  I’d known about the term in reference to a new [...]